The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-07-29
Nontn sersey Notes.


large deyil-lish was caught at Sea Isle City
last Friday.
Bri1geton viii spend $1,000 on teachers
salaries next year.
a number Of Erdgetonians are binding cot
tages at Ocean City.
The rot haanearly destroyed the grape crop
in the vicinity of NewEeId, Gloucester county.
The Browns Mills Hotel property has been
bouGhtby g.. g.. Green, Of Woodbury., who in
tends building a mammoth hotel upon the
site.
Leslie Campbell, aged Z years, son OF Captain
Lewis Campbell, of Brdgeton. was found
drowned in the Cohansey river on sunday
afternoon.
The Woodbury. city council mas defeated an
ordinance to prohibit the sale of malt liquors,
although a petition asking for its passage was
signed by AZ persons.
The Camden County society for The Proven
ton q Crueity to Animals has filed articles Of
Incorporation with the County Clerk. II was
organized at Haddon1eld a few days ago.
A small whale, measuring over p feet in
length, was caught lately near Cape May Point
by one Of the lite-saving crews. 1t was sold
for 1925. and the purchasers realized very
handsomely from the oil.
John W. Langley and isanton Quinn, life
guards IN The cxcursion-house district of At
iahilc Cii4, rescued SfNtn Tsthitss bdbhcfs
from great peril on Tuesday. The party, con-
sisting OF tour ladies and three men. were ex-
enrsionists and eonld not " i'm.
4 stnrekeeper of Bridgeton named }. i.
shores was convicted by the Mayor, on Tues
day, for the Illegal sale of liquor to Elmer
sculI, a young man who is i member ola social
club which has rooms in MIR. shores place of
business. He was fined s35 and COSTS.
At a special session of the Cumberland
County Courts ON Monday, Judge Reed fined
Rosa Carrie 600 for keeping a disorderly house
in Bridgeton. Captain John Ray, of Philadel-
phfa, convicted Of stealing sand near Egg
Island, Delaware Bay, was fined $500.
The heavy rains of Saturday caused the dam
in the pond Of the Cumberland Nail and Iron
Company, about a mile north of Bridgeten, 10
break. The long bridge across the dam was
carried away and the pond emptied. The
mills were compelled to shut down.
Henry George, the social r%efor1ner, sometime
ago informed the attorney of the widow of
George Hutchins, of Ateo, who left his little
estate in trust to George for the dissemination
of his writings, thar he would make no claim
to the property during Mrs. Hutchins'l life
time.
1t IS reported that prominent citizens of
Philadelphia intend locating some welI-known
c1ergyinen near the ferries in Camden, for the
purpose Of marrying couple who cross the
river, without cost, in order TO pnt an end to
the diseFaceful scramble among certain of the
Camden clergymen for marriage fees.
Several hundred clusters of grapes were
bagged by a Nineland fruit-grower about a
week previous To blooming as AN experiment
TO ascertain whether the fruit would properly
set and develop. The success of the method
has been demonstrated, rs the clusters thus
| treated are in fine condition, free from the rot
that is prevailing, and having escaped the
rose-bug plague.
At the April term Of Cape May County eourts
the grand jury presented the jail as unfit for
| use, the principal cause Of complaint being a
terrible stencil in and above the old stone
building. The Board of Fr~eeholders employed
a Trenton architect to devise means of venti-
lasing the prison and worknen last week began
tearing away the foundation, when in Il deep
hole under the floor they found the remains Of
thirteen dead cats. How The animals came
there Is a mystery, but they were doubtless
the canse Of the foul odor.